A recap of the days news. Its always the same counties. In other places, its ohio. Theyre pretty good at it. Were at 66 here, the early votes came in, this was blue at first, now its gone, back to its dna. If you look at any map in america. Heres the city, out here is red, and look at the margins, 70 . 67 . You move away from the cities, youre in republican country. You come down to the suburbs the republican incumbent won this race. Danny oconnor has done what he needs to do. As you move a little more away, affluent republicans here some of them like trump, some like the tax cut. This is now your tug of war in Todays Republican Party playing out in an affluent suburban county here. Is winning that by 53 enough. Its not necessarily a fair comparison, because its a not only did he win by 11 points. We should underscore this is a district that has not had a democratic representative in almost 40 years, before you were born, don. I wish. It really is remarkable. And the answer to why its
breaking news, special election in ohio s 12th congressional district too close to call right now. i want to bring in charlie dent. a republican congressman in pennsylvania. and jason candor, a democratic mayor in kansas city. and author of a brand new book. the book is fresh out of the oven. outside the wire which is just out today. gentlemen, good evening to you. congressman, i m going to start with you, there s a lot of spin going on tonight. give me the lowdown. this is a tough environment, what kind of result are we getting do you think, and is this why you didn t seek re-election? no, i didn t seek re-election, because i ve run for office 13 times and i didn t want to spoil a perfect record of 13-0. the main reason i this election tonight, balderson appears to be wing and he ll likely win. this race should not have been a contest.
we re back now with our breaking news, cnn special election coverage in ohio, which could be a safe should be a congressional district for republicans, too close to call tonight if you look up on your screen. tory balderson who is republican, 50.1%. danny o connor. 49.3%. i m back now with dana, ryan, gloria, ryan, tara, mike and hillary. did i leave anybody out? and don. when last we saw each other, we re talking about the democrats in this particular race. i know education levels are important, women are important. suburbs are really important. this is where john kasich who endorsed balderson, we all believe reluctantly and late.
here s our breaking news tonight, the special election in ohio s 12th congressional district, which should be safely republican, too close to call at the moment, 50.2% to 49.3% in favor of the republican troy balderson. my political experts are back with me. the republican candidate i just mentioned, balderson in the lead, you had an unusual way of closing tonight s voting. watch this. my opponent is from franklin county, and franklin county has been challenging. we don t want somebody from franklin county representing us. what do you think, dana? i thought that was genius. no. i mean, what was he thinking?